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DCP-LETT-404

From:
William Buckland
To:
Geological Society of London
Date:
9 Mar 1838
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (GSL/COM/P/4/2/47)
Summary:

Recommends CD’s paper on "Formation of mould" [Collected papers 1: 49–53; read 1 Nov 1837] be printed in Transactions. Praises it as establishing a new "geological power".

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-414

From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
Geological Society of London
Date:
[after 15 May 1838]
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (GSL/COM/P/4/2/48)
Summary:

Referee report on CD’s "Volcanic phenomena in South America" [Collected papers 1: 53–86]. Deductions incontrovertible, but theoretical remarks not clearly stated.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-421A

From:
Jean Pierre Sylvestre de Grateloup
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 July 1838
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/4/5)
Summary:

Sends to CD, as Secretary of the Geological Society, his work on fossil shells ["Mémoire sur les coquilles fossiles", Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux 10 (1838): 92–152].

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-426

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Geological Society of London
Date:
7 Sept 1838
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (GSL/COM/P/4/2/8)
Summary:

Report on R. A. C. Austen’s paper on the origin of limestone in Devonshire [Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1838): 669–70]. CD deems it not worthy of publication in Transactions.

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